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street put into habitable repair, viz., Nos. 2-30 (even), 34, 36, 38,
7-29 (odd). All this represents a large amount of work, necessitating
the supervision and constant attention of the Housing Inspectors.
(2) Private Development Schemes.
(a) Duchy of Cornwall.
The Duchy of Cornwall have continued and completed their
building programme (18 new houses on the Sancroft Street Estate at
Kennington) and, in addition, have completed the repairs at the
following houses in connection with which provisional (informal)
schedules had previously been prepared under Section 28 of the
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1919, by the Housing Inspectors:
Clayton Street (8 houses), Kennington Road (2 houses), and Opal
Street (9 houses).
The White Hart Street area is undergoing a transformation. The
Duchy of Cornwall has sold a large site of land at the rear of
White Hart Street and Kennington Park Road, the site being
bounded by Cottington Street, Kennington Park Road, White
Hart Street, and Lower Kennington Lane to the Army, Navy and
Air Force Institute, and upon the site have been erected large
business premises, approached from White Hart Street, Kennington
Park Road and Cottington Street respectively. The business
premises have naturally displaced a large number of tenants, who
have had to be accommodated elsewhere. The remainder of the site
is reported to be for sale, and would be suitable for the erection thereon
of working class dwellings in the form of small blocks of tenement
houses by the Borough Council, it being assumed that the price
of the land is not too heavy, and that the Duchy is prepared to sell
for such a purpose. This remaining portion of the site includes
what is known as White Hart Square (38 houses, of which 30 have
been demolished, and the other 8 are in a dilapidated condition,
and in use as a builders' stores), together with a further rectangularshaped
piece of land with a frontage to White Hart Street, and
extending back to Prince's Square Houses, and bounded on the
other two sides by Kennington Park Road and Lower Kennington
Lane houses respectively.